Get to know us

Our journey started more than two decades ago with a group of technology enthusiasts who had a dream of solving the technical pains that businesses & organizations face, helping them achieve a smooth digital transformation. In 2004, our founders delivered their first full fledged project with smashing success and went on to work on their dream.

Finally, during early 2017, this dream officially turned into Lavaloon. With the early small group of technology enthusiasts who had the original dream now being market experts with over 20 years of experience, the dream crystallized into a rising start up. With the bold goal of solving the pain of system integration that all businesses face, we are working on delivering ready made integration solutions that take only a few days to implement!

Our goal is to completely solve the pain that any business or organization faces during their digital transformation journeys, which is the difference in technologies between the various systems and the need for high end, costly system integration to maintain smooth operations.

Lavaloon is built around the novel idea of providing businesses and organizations with ready made system integration solutions, removing the hassle of having to expend greatly in time , money, and waste human effort & resources just because they don’t have access to effective integration solutions.

We’re built on the dream of integration. Our vision is to enrich the quality of the software industry by integrating with the most known and used system in the world to be able to serve all businesses worldwide in minimal time. We see ourselves as nothing other but adding value to all our stakeholders and having a footprint in every country on the globe!

Working totally on the cloud, we aim to serve all businesses worldwide with ready made integration solutions that would help remove the pain of working with different systems and the hassle of finding solutions to solve this pain.

Accordingly, we are on a mission to be the “Missing Link”. Being well experienced in the industry and with customer needs in our focus point, we are building our solutions around those needs to solve the common pains customers face .Through leveraging our ability to implement business experience at first base, we are dedicated to deliver value to the whole industry through a winner team not afraid of innovating and experimenting, and hence able to develop novel solutions.

Our Values

At Lavaloon we believe in and foster “One Dream, One Team”, where we view all stakeholders as our Partners in Success; from our core team, to our strategic partners, to our clients, and even our suppliers, we see everyone as an integral part to helping us achieve our dream, our vision. From this a few values were derived that we always go by:

Agility

Time & Cost
Effectivenes

Values Based
Performance

Being the
Missing Link

Learning

Simplicity

Innovation

Global Accebility

Culture

From our Values our Culture was autonomously created and from our values we found that our cultural pillars are:

Empowering People

We empower our customers through removing one of their foremost business operations pain, which is the unmet need of technology integrations and integration solutions to the technologies they adopted to digitally transform their businesses and help them perform better.

We empower our partners by complementing their offerings with an integral part that would allow them to fulfill their promises to their clients. Finally, we empower our suppliers through a flexible environment centered around innovation, free flow of business expertise, and mutual benefits.

Being Selective

To be able to deliver the best quality with time and cost effectiveness we tend to be selective. We’re selective in having only the brightest and most innovative calibers on board. We’re selective in joining efforts with only the top partners and suppliers. We’re even selective in the projects we choose to work on.

We believe being selective is what helps us maintain our promise of delivering innovation in the best quality with time and cost effectiveness and we don’t take that lightly !

Learning to Grow

We believe in the power of learning and how it helps us grow. With the world changing everyday now, and the technology landscape evolving with the speed of light , businesses and all types of organizations cannot afford to not be in a constant learning mode. We also believe that to learn you have to make mistakes, and we are not afraid to take risks, experiment, and make mistakes to learn; in fact, we embrace that.

That’s why along with our partners, clients, and suppliers we are adopting the Growth Mindset where we are all in learning mode with the aim of continuing to grow.

Leadership Team

Khaled Yusuf
GM and Co-Founder

Khaled is LavaLoon’s GM and Co-Founder. Khaled has around 20 years of experience in Technology and IT through various industries. He has worked in several countries in the MEA region, including Egypt, Qatar, and KSA.

Khaled has a diverse experience track record in terms of the number of countries he worked in, the different organizations he worked for or partnered with, as well as the different industries he worked in across his career. His experience spans across different industries such as IT, Banking, Telecom, Automotive, Real Estate, Telematics, etc.

His agile mindset and passion for finding solutions to help improve the business utilization of IT and Technology have enabled Khaled to successfully work on and deliver projects that vary in size from being small projects to mega projects.

Khaled is a naturally born Technology Guru! He had a passion for programming at 7 years old which he pursued at such a young age. Growing up, he continued his career in this field until he was successfully leading the ERA Mideast IT to develop its own integrated solution of Real Estate systems which operated in more than 6 countries.

Realizing his talent Khaled then moved on to managing and delivering various projects, with various success stories such as delivering a mega project between Oracle and ITS core banking system, managing the Digital Transformation of BLOM Bank in a multi-million USD Program, managing the soft launch of Vodafone Qatar POS, managing Oracle ERP projects for a number of ministries and authorities in Qatar, etc. After which, on a mission to enrich his experience, Khaled decided to move to the customer side during the year 2014

Through his strong business acumen and technical expertise, Khaled managed to help in developing businesses such as AutoWorld and SIXT Saudi Arabia, where he planned and initiated their digital transformation in another multi-million USD program.

Through his well rounded experience and strong business acumen, Khaled wanted to pursue his dream of providing Technology Providers and Organizations with a solution to the pain of system integration. Having experienced both sides, Khaled has a 360 understanding of such a pain and the effect it has on both sides, and so, along with his co-founders they developed LavaLoon on a mission to solve this pain in a way that is not only innovative, but actually effective and ensuring successful implementation and business results!

Muhammad Haggag
Development Manager and Co-Founder

Muhammad Haggag is LavaLoon’s Development Manager and Co-Founder. Muhammad has over 15 years of experience in the Technology sector within Egypt and USA.

When it comes to technology, Muhammed is considered a wizard! He not only mastered programming while still being a student, but he actually taught it to others! He was awarded the Microsoft MVP for those under 20, where he started his programming experience while he was still a university student through Graphics Programming for Games for 3 years. Muhammed also took part in proofreading ShaderX books.

Muhammad graduated from Computer and Systems Engineering, Ain Shams Univeristy during 2006, after which he joined Identix as a Software Developer. During his tenure with Identix, Muhammad worked on developing the modeling tool for Face Recognition used by the company.

After Microsoft, Muhammed joined FekraSoft and MotoSoft as Developer. Some of Muhammed’s success stories is working on fixing bugs and adding features to OfficeSuite, as well as localizing Everpad (an OpenSource Linux client of Evernote) to the Arabic Language.

Muhammed is a strong Architect, who developed Mathematical AI Algorithms and has a passion for teaching people any skills he has developed. He’s on a mission to improve the quality of technology for the new generations. Through this passion, he co- founded LavaLoon and is putting all his intellect into providing Technology Providers and Organizations with a solution to the pain of system integration.

Muhammed sees LavaLoon as offering a unique solution and experience and is set on the right track to grow into being one of the big players in the technology market. Through agility, high performance, and selecting calibers that are nothing less than super, Muhammed believes LavaLoon will grow to being one of the most important companies providing integration solutions in the international market over the coming years.

Ahmed Shalaby
Support Manager and Co-Founder

Ahmed graduated from Alexandria Institute of Engineering and Technology , BSc Computer Engineering, during 2005, and has as over 15 years of experience in the Technology sector across Egypt and Qatar.

Ahmed started his career as a Programming Engineer at the Egyptian Water and Planning Company. At 2007 he moved to work at ITS as an Application Support Group Engineer working on Core Banking and Trade Finance solutions, becoming the first person in ITS to work on two different types of solutions at the same time.

After ITS, Ahmed moved to Ali Bin Ali Group during 2009 where he continued his career there. He first joined as an Application Support Consultant in Ali Bin Ali Technology Solutions which is one of the major System Integration Companies in Qatar. Ahmed worked on projects with Vodafone, National Health Insurance Company, Qatar Public Prosecution, Supreme Judiciary Council, Bein Sport, and others. Through his scope Ahmed’s projects chose business & technology partners such as Oracle, NTS, PWC, and EY for the delivery of their solutions.

Ahmed worked on 3 implementations using RFID (Radio Frequency Identifier), where one of his projects for the Qatar Public Prosecution was considered to be the largest RFID implementation in the Middle East as a whole. The success of those RFID projects, contributed to Ali Bin Ali Group being the sole distributor of RFID in the Middle East and Africa, and Ahmed was appointed as the Sales & Marketing Director for this business from 2014 through to 2017.

During the year 2017 Ahmed moved to Ali Bin Ali Holding as a Project Manager where he was responsible of one of the largest projects for the company, implementing ERP to the holding company with around 35 of its companies. The project has a vast scope and diverse business model since each of the holding companies operates in a different industry covering FMCG, Medical, Logistics, Manufacturing, Luxury, Hospitality, and others. All of these companies which existed for many years and had their own systems, accordingly the project entailed a lot of system integration implementations.

Due to his high experience in system integrations and their solution Ahmed co-founded LavaLoon as he highly believes in the value it can offer, not only to customers but to technology providers as well. Ahmed shares with his co-founders the vision of growing LavaLoon to be one of the most important companies in the international market offering integration solutions and he sees this happening through adopting an innovative approach in everything they do.